Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

After years of denying, Facebook is on the verge of releasing its own smartphone, made by HTC. What is more interesting is that the device uses Google’s Android software. According to people briefed on the matter, Facebook will announce the phone at a news conference on Thursday in the company’s Monte Carlo headquarters.

Asus showed the Padfone Infinity on February at MWC 2013. This third-generation smartphone-tablet hybrid is now available for pre-order in Asus’s home country Taiwan. The expected release of the device is on April.

HTC is on its way to make Windows Phone-powered devices. We came to know that the smartphone maker may offer a mid-spec’ed Windows Phone, which is internally known as the HTC Tiara. HTC has just brought the Jelly Bean powered HTC One; now it is busy to unveil its first Windows Phone 8 device.

At a time of heightened tension between North Korea and South Korea and the U.S., the North Korean government has cut mobile internet access for foreign visitors. The decision came in less than a month after the reclusive regime opened mobile internet access for visitors.

AT&T is the very first carrier in the US offering BlackBerry’s newest smartphone, BlackBerry Z10 at a price of $200 with a two-year contract. But mysteriously, people are showing very less response to buy BlackBerry Z10. More exciting news is where AT&T is supposed to display the BlackBerry Z10 more widely all over its stores, it is just doing the opposite.

This time, Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has been spotted with a BlackBerry, not a Nexus. Some leading news sites have covered it with importance, as always. Die-hard fans of BlackBerry are probably counting it as a win, just like iPhone fans in similar incidents earlier. But, is the fuss focused on the right thing? I think it is not.

BlackBerry Z10 is one of the fabulous smartphones of 2013 brought by RIM. Recently in an interview on March 21, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said that the company will release four new smartphones this year, including a new ‘exciting’ flagship phone around the holidays.

Nvidia has been betting heavily on mobile gaming and the chip-maker is gearing up with a new batch of chips to those ends. At the GPU Technology Conference, the company unveiled its upcoming crop of Tegra SoCs. These next-gen Tegra SoCs are codenamed ‘Logan’ and ‘Parker.’

HTC announced its new flagship phone – the HTC One – a few weeks ago. The phone was scheduled to start shipping in third week of March, but due to some component shortages the Taiwanese smartphone maker pushed back the release date to April (the timing will vary by market).

Samsung’s new flagship smartphone, Galaxy S4, is already here. It is being expected that Apple will soon come up with its new iPhone offering, probably named iPhone 5S, to be pitted against Galaxy S4. Meanwhile, retailers are gearing up to clean out their inventories with discounts on earlier handsets. And RadioShack is the first one to do so.

Every time a new handset appears on the smartphone market, a flurry of benchmark tests are carried out to check out how well it performs. Apparently, Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 has already undergone a few tests and the benchmarks divulge that it is nearly twice as fast as Apple’s latest flagship, iPhone 5.

When Samsung launched its last flagship smartphone, Galaxy S III, the company was able to muster fairly good sales and make it among the leading brands in the Android arena. The new flagship from Samsung, Galaxy S4, seems to be even more popular, with a UK retailer citing that interest in Galaxy S4 is 40% higher than that in Galaxy S III.

We have been hearing about the fabled X Phone which supposedly is a joint collaboration of both Google and Motorola. However, so far no clear proof has surfaced to substantiate these rumors. Another claimed image of the X Phone has now come up, and it has been hinted that X Phone may actually be a banner brand for multiple devices.

The sheer number of new features that Samsung has packed in the new Galaxy S4 handset may leave one confused. To help us with it, Samsung has released a video walkthrough which lets the users get a quick grasp of the many different features in the new smartphone. The video is posted below.

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